Love can only consist in failure…on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.
ALAIN BADIOUEvil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.
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Without mathematics, we are blind.
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The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that’s why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
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The aesthetic effect is certainly imaginary; but this imaginary is not the reflection of the real, since it is the real of this reflection.
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Truth is a new word in Europe (and elsewhere).
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In order to be cured of the Plato sickness, has swallowed such doses of a relativist, vaguely skeptical, lightly spiritualist and insipidly moralist medicine, that it is in the process of gently dying, in the small bed of its supposed democratic comfort.
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Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement.
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Love is not a contract between two narcissists.
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What is the world like when it is experienced, developed and lived from the point of view of difference and not identity? That is what I believe love to be.
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We must point out that in what concerns its material the event is not a miracle.
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Those who have nothing have only their discipline.
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The aesthetic process decentres the specular relation with which ideology perpetuates its closed infinity.
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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
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We have the riots we deserve.
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There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
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What kind of world does one see when one experiences it from the point of view of two and not one?
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